Pages Tagged “Distributed Computing”
Tech Tips
- How Many Bits of Pi? Apparently all Raspberry Pi CPUs show up the same in the Linux kernel, so you have to look at the actual hardware to verify what processor you’re running on and whether it’s 32 or 64-bit.
- Seeking the Perfect Balance for BOINCing After a brief stint at distributed computing early in the pandemic, I came back first to Folding@Home, then BOINC, with the goal of only using spare power to help out with research.
Blog Posts
- 100% Distributed Web Hosting
Too bad it’s the bad guys. As reported on DailyDave and picked up at SANS, Email Battles and elsewhere, there are phishers out there using a botnet (a network of infected “zombie” computers) not just to send emails, but to host the websites and the DNS for their scam. Imagine what this technology could do […]
- Distributed Blog Spam
Yesterday morning, I remarked to Katie that it seemed odd that with the vast number of “zombie” computers infected with remote control programs via viruses, trojans, spyware, etc., their primary use so far has been sending spam. After 7-odd years of distributed computing projects ranging from demonstrating weaknesses in encryption schemes to searching for extra-terrestrial […]